Join us for Kids Week, where children of all ages can explore the world of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) through a range of thrilling activities! Explore engaging displays and exhibits, witness captivating live animal shows, participate in hands-on workshops, enjoy performances by special guests and experience interactive demonstrations designed to educate and ignite curiosity.
Members will enjoy unique exclusives including a meet & greet with a NASA astronaut, a private animal show, Museum store and restaurant discounts and much more. Join today!
10:00am–5:00pm | Displays and Activities | Hangar 3, Exploreum
Have fun building vessels, structures and bridges, see animals of all shapes and sizes, and learn how birds and boats float and planes fly during these days of nature and science activities!
Participants include:
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: Journey to the Earth's polar regions as you learn about the Arctic and Antarctica, and uncover the ways these frozen, remote places are similar and different.
Columbia’s Society of Women Engineers: Get hands-on with fun engineering challenges and interactive games!
BuildSubmarines.com supports the U.S. Navy’s mission to manufacture next-gen submarines and showcases a wide variety of career opportunities and resources. Their team will be onsite with activities such as virtual welding and machining that demonstrate skills used to build ships.
Two by Two Animal Haven: Explore the Wild World of Animals exhibit, which features a variety of fascinating creatures, including a kangaroo, cane toad, snake, bearded dragon, hissing cockroaches, skinny pig (Hairless Guinea Pig), parrot, North American alligator, and tortoise.
New York Aquarium: Shark Research Table: Learn how scientists from the New York Aquarium study sharks in the wild. Practice your data collection skills just like our shark researchers and dig through sand to find real shark teeth!
Hudson River Park’s River Project: Join Hudson River Park’s River Project to take a peek through a microscope and discover some of the Hudson River’s smallest organisms.
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater: The Hudson River belongs to everyone and it's everyone's job to protect it! Discover artifacts and creatures that live in the Hudson, and conduct an experiment to learn more microplastic pollution.
iCamp: Explore coding with LEGO Robotics while bringing your creations to life, then dive into hands-on engineering by building buzzing Vibrating Bugs that really move. Through playful experimentation with energy and design, you’ll spark creativity, strengthen problem solving skills, and build excitement around STEAM learning.
ROBOFUN: Experiment with a variety of LEGO robots and coding interfaces. Among many other projects, there will be a remote-controlled car, dance robots, automatic top spinner, robotic dog sled, rubiks cube solving robot, video game creation software stations and more. Come join in to engage with all these projects and see what you can make!
Meet the Author: Ann Marie Stephens is a children’s book author and award-winning teacher, excited to share her latest picture book, CATerwaul! A Story of Sorting. Create a cat craft to spark imagination and ask for face art kitty whiskers.
Meet the Author: Ann McCallum Staats, an award-winning author and former teacher, shares her latest book Fantastic Flora: The World’s Biggest, Baddest, and Smelliest Plants. Play a game to investigate the truth about how some of the most gigantic, toxic, and stunning species in the plant kingdom survive and thrive.
Brooklyn Robot Foundry: Families can join Brooklyn Robot Foundry to learn about circuitry and build a wiggly little robot to take home.
American Society of Civil Engineers: Workshop - Build your own toothpick structure. Join us for the Interactive Seismic Structural Experience, where you can build your own toothpick structures and observe how they perform under seismic loading on our simulated shake table.
Crazy Science: Stop by the Crazy Science booth for fun, hands-on STEM activities where visitors can explore surprising reactions, try quick interactive experiments, and experience science in a playful, engaging way.
Gotham Whale: Learn how researchers identify whales by playing the fluke match game, draw your own whale tail with unique identifiers, then explore unique whale behaviors and test your knowledge!
Disney on Broadway: Experience the magic of THE LION KING and ALADDIN on Broadway, with hands-on arts activities, giveaways, and more from Disney on Broadway.
New York Hall of Science: Create a LEGO printing press! Use LEGO dots to create custom design stamps or choose from pre-made pixel art stamps to create a unique greeting card or keepsake mini poster.
Wildlife Conservation Society: Learn about the variety of engaging education programs at the Bronx Zoo, Central Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo, Queens Zoo and New York Aquarium and explore a wildly fun hands-on activity!
Brooklyn Robot Foundry: Families can join Brooklyn Robot Foundry to learn about circuitry and build a wiggly little robot.
10:00am-4:30pm | Intrepid Museum Education Maker Zone: Camouflage Planes: Create a camouflage plane that can blend in with its environment.
10:00am-5:00pm: Book Nook: Reading Zone (Hangar 3, Rotunda)
Visit our quiet reading zone with a variety of children’s books donated by Brooklyn Book Bodega.
11:30am | Meet the Author: Ann Marie Stephens will read her book sCATtered!, where wacky cats use estimation to prepare for their Grandma’s visit. (Location: Hangar 3, Book Nook)
Noon | Intrepid Museum Education Demonstration: Hiding in Plane Sight: Learn how animals use camouflage to survive in the wild and how they inspired different types of camouflage used on Intrepid in this interactive puppet show.
12:00pm-4:00pm | VR Experience: Explore Intrepid: Engines and Boilers: Step into immersive 3D recreations of USS Intrepid’s engineering spaces and learn firsthand how to run the engines, fuel the boilers, steer the ship and more. Experience Engines and Boilers at the Museum or download the app to keep exploring at home. (minimum age required 10+)
12:30pm & 2:30pm | Tales and Talks: Join our knowledgeable Visitor Experience Specialists for tales and talks! From stories about the Intrepid’s crew, to tales about other planets, and everywhere in between, these talks will expand your experience at the Intrepid Museum! Offered daily at 12:30pm and 2:30pm in Hangar 2.
12:30pm | Performance from THE LION KING: Experience the majesty with a remarkable performance from the Award-Winning Best Musical, THE LION KING on Broadway.
1:00pm | The Crazy Science Show for Kids: Catch the high-energy Crazy Science stage shows, featuring dramatic experiments and cool, fog-filled dry-ice demonstrations!
2:00pm | Two by Two Animal Haven presents: Wild World of Animals: Join us as we share the importance of Animal Conservation. The Wild World of Animals show brings fun and exciting animals right onto the decks of Intrepid!
2:30pm | Meet the Author: Ann Marie Stephens will read her book sCATtered!, where wacky cats use estimation to prepare for their Grandma’s visit. (Location: Hangar 3, Book Nook)
3:00pm | The Crazy Science Show for Kids: Catch the high-energy Crazy Science stage shows—featuring dramatic dry ice experiments and cool, fog-filled dry-ice demonstrations!
10:00am–5:00pm | Displays and Activities | Hangar 3, Exploreum
Have fun building vessels, structures and bridges, see animals of all shapes and sizes, and learn how birds and boats float and planes fly during these days of nature and science activities!
Participants include:
Columbia’s Society of Women Engineers: CGet hands-on with fun engineering challenges and interactive games!
Two by Two Animal Haven: Explore the Wild World of Animals exhibit, which features a variety of fascinating creatures, including a kangaroo, cane toad, snake, bearded dragon, hissing cockroaches, skinny pig (Hairless Guinea Pig), parrot, North American alligator, and tortoise.
New York Aquarium: Shark Research Table: Learn how scientists from the New York Aquarium study sharks in the wild. Practice your data collection skills just like our shark researchers and dig through sand to find real shark teeth!
BuildSubmarines.com supports the U.S. Navy’s mission to manufacture next-gen submarines and showcases a wide variety of career opportunities and resources. Their team will be onsite with activities such as virtual welding and machining that demonstrate skills used to build ships.
iCamp Explore coding with LEGO Robotics while bringing your creations to life, then dive into hands-on engineering by building buzzing Vibrating Bugs that really move. Through playful experimentation with energy and design, you’ll spark creativity, strengthen problem solving skills, and build excitement around STEAM learning.
ROBOFUN: Experiment with a variety of LEGO robots and coding interfaces. Among many other projects, there will be a remote-controlled car, dance robots, automatic top spinner, robotic dog sled, circuitry station, video game creation software stations, and more. Come join in to engage with all these projects and see what you can make!
Meet the Author: Ann Marie Stephens is a children’s book author and award-winning teacher, excited to share her latest picture book, CATerwaul! A Story of Sorting. Create a cat craft to spark imagination and ask for face art kitty whiskers.
Meet the Author: Ann McCallum Staats, an award-winning author and former teacher, shares her latest book Fantastic Flora: The World’s Biggest, Baddest, and Smelliest Plants. Play a game to investigate the truth about how some of the most gigantic, toxic, and stunning species in the plant kingdom survive and thrive.
Brooklyn Robot Foundry: Families can join Brooklyn Robot Foundry to learn about circuitry and build a wiggly little robot to take home.
American Society of Civil Engineers: Workshop - build your own toothpick structure. Join us for the Interactive Seismic Structural Experience, where you can build your own toothpick structures and observe how they perform under seismic loading on our simulated shake table.
Gotham Whale: Learn how researchers identify whales by playing the fluke match game, draw your own whale tail with unique identifiers, then explore unique whale behaviors and test your knowledge!
Disney on Broadway: Experience the magic of THE LION KING and ALADDIN on Broadway, with hands-on arts activities, giveaways, and more from Disney on Broadway.
BraiNY: Meet neuroscientists, observe real human brains, and explore fun, hands-on neuroscience activities designed to spark curiosity about how the brain works!
Columbia University Neuroscience Outreach (CUNO): Explore the CUNO Brain Bank, a collection of brain samples from various species, and build your own 3D Brain Hat to model the human brain!
New York Hall of Science: Create a LEGO printing press! Use LEGO dots to create custom design stamps or choose from pre-made pixel art stamps to create a unique greeting card or keepsake mini poster.
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers: Discover the magic of STEM and make your own LED paper flashlight!
NYC Ghostbusters: NYC Ghostbusters are back with ectoplasmic slime lessons, along with a training simulator where you can bust 16-bit ghosts with a proton pack!
Billion Oyster Project: Learn how you can help efforts to restore the oyster population in New York Harbor through education initiatives.
10:00am-4:30pm | Intrepid Museum Education Maker Zone: Camouflage Planes: Create a camouflage plane that can blend in with its environment.
10:00am-5:00pm: Book Nook: Reading Zone (Hangar 3, Rotunda)
Visit our quiet reading zone with a variety of children’s books donated by Brooklyn Book Bodega.
10:30am-4:30pm | Meet and Greet: Skye from PAW Patrol and King Julien from Madagascar: Come and take your picture with Skye from the PAW Patrol series and King Julien from the Madagascar movies!
11:00am-3:00pm | Aircraft Talks: Visitors can go inside the Intrepid Museum’s Aircraft Restoration Hangar on the flight deck to learn about the process of restoring and preserving the aircraft on display at the Museum (approx. 20 minutes, on the hour). Location: Flight Deck
Noon | Intrepid Museum Education Demonstration: Poof! Life in a Vacuum: Learn what would happen if an astronaut forgot their space suit in the vacuum of space in this interactive demonstration.
12:00pm-4:00pm | VR Experience: Explore Intrepid: Engines and Boilers: Step into immersive 3D recreations of USS Intrepid’s engineering spaces and learn firsthand how to run the engines, fuel the boilers, steer the ship and more. Experience Engines and Boilers at the Museum or download the app to keep exploring at home. (minimum age required 10+)
12:30pm & 2:30pm | Tales and Talks: Join our knowledgeable Visitor Experience Specialists for tales and talks! From stories about the Intrepid’s crew, to tales about other planets, and everywhere in between, these talks will expand your experience at the Intrepid Museum! Offered daily at 12:30pm and 2:30pm in Hangar 2.
12:30pm | Meet the Author: Ann McCallum Staats, an award-winning author and former teacher, shares her latest book Fantastic Flora: The World’s Biggest, Baddest, and Smelliest Plants. (Location: Hangar 3, Book Nook)
1:00pm | Disney on Broadway: Sing and dance with Disney on Broadway's teaching artists, as they lead you through the movement and music from Disney's THE LION KING and ALADDIN on Broadway!
2:00pm | WonderSpark Puppet Show: The Case of the Missing Creature. There's a creature on the loose, and it's up to our hero to find it. Join detective Mystery Max as he searches for clues to find the missing creature, a real life animal with amazing characteristics! The audience will sing songs and call out to help Max find the missing creature and solve the case. Along the way we'll learn about the scientific method and everyone will laugh along with this traditional hand puppet show.
2:30pm | Meet the Author: Ann McCallum Staats, an award-winning author and former teacher, shares her latest book Fantastic Flora: The World’s Biggest, Baddest, and Smelliest Plants. (Location: Hangar 3, Book Nook)
3:00pm | New York Aquarium Presents: Meet two live ocean invertebrates and learn about the threats they face and their crucial role in maintaining healthy ecosystems.
*American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided for select stage presentations
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided for all stage presentations on Sunday, February 15, Wednesday, February 18, and Saturday, February 21. Families who need ASL interpretation may register here for priority access and free admission. In addition to the induction loops in the Box Office and throughout the Museum for permanent and temporary exhibits, there will be an induction loop around the seating area for stage presentations.
Sensory bags with noise reduction headphones and fidgets will be available at both the Information Desk and the Education Maker Zone.
Veteran and military families should register here in advance for free admission and access to select member events.
For more information about accessibility resources available during your visit, please visit intrepidmuseum.org/access. To learn more, please email access@intrepidmuseum.org.
For general information, please call us: 877-957-SHIP (7447) or 212-245-0072.
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